Public Private Partnerships and Dispute Resolution - Chapter 25 - Revolution in the International Rule of Law: Essays in Honor of Don Wallace, Jr.

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Tore Wiwen-Nilsson

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Professor Don Wallace, whom I have now known for more than ten
years, is passionate about more or less every field and facet of law, and

for that matter about a number of other things. He is curious about

everything, and he listens. He can speak about two different things at the

same time, and probably listen to a third. Does this make it easy to write

a contribution to this Festschrift in his honour? Yes, I think so, because

anything goes. Regrettably, the topic "Reflections on Professor Wallace"

is already taken.

So, I have chosen one of the topics, which I believe is more at Don

Wallace's heart just now. That topic is Public Private Partnerships

("PPP" or "PPPs") and Dispute Resolution. PPPs have increasingly

become an important tool for economic development. The importance of

PPPs has been recognized by States at the United Nations Conference on

Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 at which

the use of PPPs was encouraged as a tool for economic development.1

Dispute Resolution in PPPs has been discussed in various publications2

but to my knowledge only in a manner that describes the possible

alternatives of methods of dispute resolution.3 PPP is used to denote

many variations of a cooperation between the public sector and the